A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.
Sinônimos
Examples for "low relief"
Examples for "low relief"
1A child's face blurred and delicately weathered; features in innocent, low relief.
2The frieze is in low relief, the figures scarcely starting from the background.
3The spandrels between the arches are diapered in low relief with leaf ornament.
4On this the modeller made out his design in low relief.
5Some examples are in rather low relief, portraits approximating certain painters.
1Here Noah drew out of his pocket a sort of basso relievo carved in pine.
2It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo.
1I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.
1Another curl of bas relief offered itself and I reached down-
2The minster at Freyburg has a grotesque bas relief over its main portal, representing the Judgment.
3The following is a translation from a bas relief by Professor Pinches of a passage detailing Jehu's tribute:
4My hands groped after something to hold and caught on one of the bas relief scroll effects I'd spotted earlier.
5One large bas relief, however, forms an exception, and from its legend we learn the name of Khanni, son of Takhkhi-khîkhutur.
6The walls and ceiling are exquisitely frescoed, and ornamented with bas reliefs in plaster.
7Bas Relief of one of the VESSELS frequenting the Ports of JAVA in the Middle Ages.
8Ask him, is he fond of bas reliefs?
9Bas Relief of the Gods (Frieze Of The Parthenon).
10The altar of the chapel is adorned with bas reliefs representing the conquest and surrender of Granada.
11On the four sides were large square gaps showing the places where the destroyed bas reliefs had been.
12The external walls of these buildings were of gray sandstone covered from foundation to summit with bas reliefs.
13The pedestal, which is also of bronze, contains bas reliefs, representing scenes from Faust, Wilhelm Meister and Egmont.
14The figure is fourteen feet high and stands on a pedestal of bronze, with bas reliefs on the four sides.
Translations for bas relief